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Net Applications is. It’s right there in the Wikipedia article you are linking to. Net Applications measure unique visits and do country level weighing of data.
by arrrg 13y ago
Net Applications is. It’s right there in the Wikipedia article you are linking to. Net Applications measure unique visits and do country level weighing of data. The article is also quoting Net Application’s desktop numbers. That might explain the difference, at least partly.
Overall I would argue that the statement in the article, while accurate, can be misleading. It should probably include mobile usage numbers (though the sentence you quoted makes clear that they don’t – and on mobile phones Firefox isn’t much of a player anyway) and maybe note that market share measurement of browsers can be unreliable.
- dewitt 13y agoThanks, I didn't see that on the Wikipedia page. Still, while I know it's not good to say "data" and "gut feel" in the same sentence, I just have a very hard time believing that IE usage is trending upward while Chrome is trending down. It just doesn't add up.
- HelloMcFly 13y agoIf we're only talking desktop numbers, I could believe those trends. One could make an argument that at this point in their market maturity, those users who navigate away from IE are a more-or-less static population in terms of proportion of desktop users, so Firefox and Chrome fight for similar users. The growing market share of Windows 8, sluggish or not, could explain an upward trend for IE. Total suppositions with no data. Not an argument, just thinking aloud.
- s3r3nity 13y agoOne other way to possibly interpret this is the substitutability going on: maybe Chrome users are switching to Firefox (or hell even Safari); also Win 8 is growing pretty rapidly. Sidebar: I find IE 11 pretty usable these days -- give it a try if you're open minded. You might be surprised =)